I have a 5-day for my boat cooler. I put a frozen jug in the night before and it'll still be partially frozen the next night. That's one gallon in an otherwise empty cooler overnight and then covered in fish the next day. The fishy smell cleans out with bleach just fine. The youtube says the 6-day v...

Over the past few years I have noticed more late born gobblers than I have ever seen. I have been calling up short beards and letting them go because they did not show a full fan or at least gobble while I was looking at them. It stands to reason there would be late born hens, too. I know sounding l...

Sounding like a popular type of caller is bad news for a hen if it wants to assemble any turkeys. Usually they sound like a box call, slate or glass pot, or mouth call with no rollover. I have seen hens that sounded like a box call or a glass pot chasing after gobblers while the gobblers headed away...

What I posted was my best guess based on posts made across the web. Which is to say I never measured or counted anything. There are for sure different numbers given from different sources for a nominal shot size of a nominal density.

Bird numbers are up a little from a few years ago when they were near impossible to find. The pressure increased to a level I had not seen outside of FL and stayed high with out of town hunters throughout the season.

Long barrels with light payloads at standard velocity make a difference to me. Several companies make a version of the Allen Sound Sensor. You can hear well enough to detect a deer walking in dry leaves at 40 yards. A buck chasing a doe at 100 yards is more of a general commotion than easily identif...

This brings up questions about chamber dimensions and hull expansion. Is anyone running these through a sizing die? The two .410s I fired them in had noticeably different dimensions after forming to the chamber.

Sort of on topic is how you lose your hearing. You don't necessary lose it over the whole spectrum like turning down the volume. Hearing loss due to gunfire and gun stock vibration, for instance, is high frequency loss. You'll still hear the gobbles, they just won't sound like gobbles and may not ca...

I like vests, but they're too hot for most of the season. I use a call organizer hung from a binocular harness. The seat pad hangs from belt by a carabiner. I have put a small pad hung off the leather piece on the back of the harness. It'll fan your back as you walk. HS Strut came out with a similar...

I don't understand bore snakes. How are you supposed to get a clean barrel using something that is always dirty after the first time you use it? When solvent melts wad buildup it turns into slime. I don't see how a bore snake will ever get all that out. Looks to me like it just built up enough that ...